The United Nations has described the charges against the former leader as politically motivated. If convicted, she could face a maximum of 102 years in prison.
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Myanmar Announces Amnesty for Thousands of Anti-Coup Protesters
The junta, which seized power in February, said it was releasing the prisoners to mark the Lighting Festival, a three-day holiday that begins Tuesday.
Some Past Nobel Peace Prize Winners Have Caused Controversy
Controversies over past winners have dogged the committee, which according to Nobel rules cannot withdraw a prize once it is given.
U Nyan Win, a Lawyer for Aung San Suu Kyi, Dies of Covid
The death of U Nyan Win, a lawyer for Aung San Suu Kyi who was locked up for months after a February coup, pointed to the growing toll of Myanmar’s outbreak.
This Lawyer Loses Most of His Cases. And He’s Proud of It.
“The case is lost,” says U Khin Maung Zaw, a human rights lawyer in Myanmar who is representing Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, “but the cause is won.”
Virus Surges in Myanmar After Coup
With doctors and other health care workers already on strike to protest the coup, Myanmar’s health care system may buckle under the outbreak.
Genocide Designation for Myanmar Tests Biden’s Human Rights Policy
After the coup in Myanmar, President Biden is being pushed to do what the Trump administration would not: Declare atrocities against the Rohingya in 2017 as genocide.
Confident in Its Impunity, the Myanmar Junta Ignores Diplomacy
The generals who seized power five months ago have shown no inclination to heed international pleas to reverse themselves, even as Myanmar slides into a failed state.
U.N. General Assembly Demands Myanmar Junta End Coup and Stop the Killings
A resolution adopted Friday by the General Assembly is the most widespread condemnation yet of the Feb. 1 coup, a sharp diplomatic slap that contradicted the junta’s claim it has not been isolated.
Where Myanmar Sends Its Political Prisoners
For 134 years, Insein Prison has stood as a monument to brutality. Since the Feb. 1 coup, journalists, elected leaders and pro-democracy protesters have been held in the aging facility.